Saint Thomas Aquinas on Joy

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I was recently told that Saint Thomas said, “Joy is the noblest human act.” But I could not find this saying anywhere. Did he actually write it, and where? I’m wondering what he could have meant (if he indeed wrote this); he seems to regard joy as an effect of charity.
 
For St. Thomas, Joy is the delight in possession of a present good. It is one of the 11 human passions (One of the six concupiscible passions). While I am not going to try to track down that quote, it does seem consistent with St. Thomas’s teaching, especially since Joy is the fundamental passion/activity of the Beatific Vision, and hence man’s highest (and hence most noble) end.
 
Thanks for that 🙂 Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to me as if he actually wrote those words (which are in many places attributed to him); I can’t find them anywhere,
 
I am reading a book on Dominican spirituality right now and there was a statement in there about St. Thomas Aquinas stating that anyone who did not experience joy or enjoy humor would be “highly suspect morally”. I believe he was referred to in one of his biographies as The Happy Teacher.
 
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I was recently told that Saint Thomas said, “Joy is the noblest human act.” But I could not find this saying anywhere. Did he actually write it, and where? I’m wondering what he could have meant (if he indeed wrote this); he seems to regard joy as an effect of charity.
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newadvent.org/summa/3028.htm

Summa, Second Part of the Second Part, Q28, St. Thomas Aquinas
 
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